8vo. [2], 48, 22pp, [2]. With 'Rodrigo, a Spanish Legend', and shorter pieces occasionally added to copies. Without half-title. Extra-illustrated with 12 engraved plates. Bound by J. Winstanley of Manchester in near contemporary green straight-grain morocco, richly tooled in gilt and blind. Rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp.

A grangerized copy of the first edition of Church of England clergyman and bibliographer William Parr Greswell's (bap. 1765, d. 1854) Gothic narrative verse set in Chester; where the cathedral is built on the site of the eponymous monastery. The extra-illustrations are, appropriately predominantly engraved views and plans of Chester cathedral.